@@ragnar3434Then there’s me. “Yes, I’m playing an Athreos deck. Yes, it absolutely *is* a combo-centric Shadowborn Apostle Athreos deck; I *am* in fact that kind of monster.”
“It usually doesn’t assemble its pieces that fast!” they say, as they go infinite and win while no one has the needed removal spell on like turn 2 or 3.
The worst part about Winter's Orb is that Urza can tap it for mana. Then since orb is tapped all of Urza's lands untap normally. Edit: Mandatory 1k likes edit, thank you random internet strangers!
Literally, LITERALLY, if Urza didn't make Artifacts taps for mana, I might've become a blue player instead of Golgari. But instead, my first commander experience was against him and I've never been the same.
Okay but in my Urza deck, it’s all 0 drop artifacts and Sea Monsters, so when I activate his ability, Urza goes fishing and either pulls up a big fish (Tromokratis) or an old boot (Herbal Poultice). The deck is called Urza’s Retirement and beatdowns with sea monsters is the only win condition.
His own wife was never happy with him so I'm gonna say he probably didn't make those toys available and between that and the selfishness in lore I'm going to say getting it is not in the cards. Love the work as always and I will continue my quest to have you roast Grand Warlord Radha.
She (a stunningly beautiful princess) literally went into his workshop and was like “Urza, please stop building mecha-dragons and have sex with me.” And he basically just told her “not now, I’m busy building robots.”
I was browsing EDHRec and stumbled upon this card and its high salt score. I was in a Discord call with my friend at the time and said, "Wait, this doesn't look too bad. Why does everyone hate it?" "Winter Orb." "Ah."
Even without stacks pieces, it's still absolutely broken. The card just does it all: huge mana production, gives you a board state and is it's own mana dump for the mana you generated giving you card advantage in the process. Just inane levels of power creep compared to older cards. Imho a well designed commander (or card in general) should never have both setup and pay off on the same card. Never! That's just lame design.
Thats not even close to true. If you want you can pin the phyrexians existing on him, since he (and his brother) freed them by accident. (Even then thats like, 1/3 of the bad things that happened) But then you have to blame everythin the Eldrazi did on Nissa for freeing them
“Everything bad that happened in magic” can be summed up in three parts. The Phyrexians, the Eldrazi, and Nicol Bolas. The Phyrexians were absolutely 100% his fault there is no doubt there. Nicol bolas was the product of a sibling rivalry gone wrong (I see the resemblance but it’s not THAT rivalry) and it was the elder dragon war that really caused it, which Urza had no part in. Lastly, the eldrazi were caused by their own volition and hunger to feed. Bolas poked the bear, nissa lit gasoline, and ugin messed with things he could not comprehend, but they caused their own awakening. Therefore, Urza is only a third at fault for everything wrong with magic.
Just the experiments in the Tolarian Academy make him a monster. I do respect Maldhound for not going for the obvious and lore accurate accusation of "warcriminal". It must be hard writing a skit about Urza and not go for the low hanging fruit.
Urza commits war crimes on the daily and I still be running all his gear We got his saga, his incubator, his lands, his battlethopter, His child?? the list continues and so does my love for the mad lad of magic
I made a blue white wheel deck. Lemme tell you nothing gives me more joy in the world than making everyone wheel theyre graveyard and hand back and have to take one and mil 2 for every card I draw. Then proceed to play my next wheel free lmao
I built an Urza deck and its such a fun deck to play. Of course its a feelbad for the opponents but i think its fine to get staxed out of the game every onec in a while so im not even thinking about tearing it apart.
This man is the only reason I can conceptualize why people hate Blue more than Green, like if this is the only blue player you know yeah screw those guys
I really want an altered art of Urza to be Dr. Eggman because that makes so much sense to me. I would build that deck and be evil every second of the day if I got my hands on that.
I would pay good money for this short, but with Urza, Lord Protector, or Mishra, Claimed by Gix, and lumping in their Meld ridiculousness, but this Urza is still great, and I agree with everything you said. 😊 Honestly, his only restraint is how expensive the physical card is to obtain.
Mald, he started a war over a rock his brother had even though he already had one. He wouldn’t loan you white t-shirt let alone an “special activities” robot.
Oh I have a BUNCH of decks where this guy would be FANTASTIC! Like, for example, my flicker deck makes hundreds of gnomes anyway, might as well tap them for mana!
My strategy as a mono green player against mono blue is to play so many threats in one turn that they can't possibly swat all of them down. Oh, that and including so many ludicrously powerful things in the deck that the things im going to win with are ignored
I believe the dialogue in V for Vendetta fits here: "No, what you have are bullets and the hope that when your guns are empty I'm no longer standing, because if I am, you'll all be dead before you've reloaded."
All I have to say is Sphinx's Tutelage, Psychic Spiral, and Traumatize are things that exist. I have a friend that plays mono Green into my typical mono Blue decks. If I'm feeling particularly mean, I run three Sphinx's Tutelage, two Psychic Spirals, and two Traumatize cards. I have drawn at least one of all three of them in one starting hand before and made that man cry. To be absolutely fair, that was also one of my Jace decks. Peace was never an option.
It’s pretty awesome, but Voltron in commander is usually underpowered unless you have something like kediss to spread the damage. Tapping equipped equipment for mana will never not be hilarious though
My roommate has an Urza deck. We don't let him play it with us, because it's just solitaire. And if he does play it, my goal is not to win, but to ensure he loses.
Wonderful video! Certainly one of your better ones! It's me, that tatyova/Zada guy. I went on hiatus, and you did tatyova (ThankYouSoMuch). I would like to humbly request, once again, Zada, hedron grinder (indomitable creativity for half your deck turn 5? Yes please!). I would also like to request drana and linvala. Slapping them down next to a life and limb will finally make the green players play fair! ☺️
I remember the first time I sat down across from an Urza player, the Assistant Manager of my LGS told us he was gonna teach us a lesson. Turn 4 his Urza comes out, turn 5 I Mind Control it. Didn't have mana for the counter in hand, no bounce spells in his deck and no one was using their board wipes to give him back Shit Lord here. He sat the rest of the game out doing nothing.
So I just learned who Cormela, Glamour Thief is. She is Grixis wet dream. Just run a basic sacrifice recursion deck and she's threatening infinite mana and/or sacrifices; LITERALLY AT ANY MOMENT. She has flash, and there are instants that will put her back into play when she dies. It's actually disgusting how fast the deck builds itself
As a reality chip player, "Wild" wouldn't be my first thought. Considering the best card in the deck, the Sensei's Divining Top, it can be very easy to fall into the dark path of the thoracle (I only did it cause I opened a thoracle previously some time ago).
Unwinding clock and Manifold key sound real mean with that Winter Orb. If I start to hate myself just a little more I might have to make this deck just to piss people off.
I once played an Urza player who played Winter Orb, and then proceeded to use Sea Gate Restoration while I had both Smothering Tithe and Anointed Procession on field, and he was all tapped out xD Easiest W of my life
My friend built an urza stax deck that we never let see the light of day (and for good reason) so out of pure spite I built an urza deck of my own and did Voltron equipment. Eventually I realized how awful Voltron is in commander so I switched it to artifact construct beaters, but I never added a single stax piece and I will always stand by that, no matter how powerful it may be. Heck I’ll let people draw off of howling mine if I’m nice enough
This is why I like Ojer pakpatiq (I think that's how it's spelled) not a super scary commander , I built it for goofy interaction and still manages to pop off in weird ways
Oh and the best part is, it avoids any kind of summoning sickness because the ability is a passive on Urza and not "artifacts you control gain T: Add U" because we need it to be just that much more nonsensical.
I run Sakashima as a solo commander for mono blue... "activities" The deck is almost all clones, stuff that makes copies, stuff that turns other stuff into something else, stuff that steals stuff, and my favorite, the other sakashima...
Recently played a game with my Urza commander deck and dropped mycosynth lattice making all my permanents artifacts which in turn took my 5/5 constructs to 28/28 constructs
Urza gets all the mono-blue commander hate, which is great because it sometimes lets God-Eternal Kefnet fly under the radar. At least, until somebody at the table has faced a Kefnet extra turns deck before and can warn everybody else that your win condition is just making sure that nobody else can get a turn via one of several endless loops (eg. Isochron Scepter + Mystical Tutor + Nexus of Fate), and then poking people to death with a bird god.
@@wesleywyndam-pryce5305 No, it's actually pretty interactive, as most of the deck is a combination of control and theft (eg. Kefnet + Bribery is stupid), with Shark Typhoon + Metallurgic Summonings for backup bodies. The loop isn't necessary to win but, when I set up an infinite loop, I demonstrate it and ask if people have a solution in hand and would like me to play it through or whether they want to end the game. The grossest combo in that deck is actually by imprinting Brainstorm on the Isochron, and then looping Expropriate (play the copy, draw 3 and put the real copy back on top; repeat until I own everything on the board and have a bunch of extra turns). I only got that once, but it was enough.
Those extracurricular activities was hilarious. Funny man please stop taking all the easy shots. I need to see you do a video on Kelsien the Plague. Please and thank you
I pulled an Urza at the MH pre-release and put him in my Saheeli artifacts deck. I dont think I will ever build a deck around him, its probably a great time for me but not for the rest of the table 😅.
So. I got this blue Urza guy, power artifact on a basalt monolith, a Mondrak and anointed procession, mirrorworks and esper Urza in play. I play a panharmonicon. Use mirror to get 4 copy tokens. I then sculpting steel the panharmicon, triggering the mirrorworks into 5 panharmonicons that activate cumulatively making 125? Panharmonicon copies. I then Play helm of the host, onto mondrak, and declare end step, mondrak gets copied triggering a cumulative set of doubling that has a few thousand iterations. Then, Esper Urza triggers, into millions of Mondrak Doublers, popping off thousands of times each, making an army of googleplex X/X Constructs who have menace because of Esper Urza. It’s war crimes the likes of which have only been seen in Stellaris. Blue Urza dug me to the helm. And the pan harmonic on.
You are the only other person I've ever heard use the term "extra curricular activities" in that way aside from myself. I thought it was just me that said it. Also can we get some love for my boy Toski!
Winter Orb and other shenanigans aside, he's ridiculous simply because you can now tap your Treasures for mana without sacrificing them. That's what balances Treasures being so easy to get. Oh whoops Academy Man says when you make a Treasure, Clue, or Food you actually make three mana rocks? Ragequit central.
I've been itching to make a mono blue equipment voltron deck where you suit up the constructs and don't even get to win through commander damage. Yes I'm a masochist
Make everything a artifact with encroaching mycosynth and then unwinding clock. You are never out of mana with erza and if anyone even trys to remove him he has 10 counter spells in his hand.
For me urza just basically say F it your artifact creatures don't have to worry about haste enablers to tap for mana. It doesn't even care about stony silence since it's urza who does it
"Oh no, it's not THAT Urza deck!" said every single person ever running THAT Urza's deck.
The first step of the game with some commanders is to lie like a rug, and I for one have to respect that.
Me crying in *Prince of Kroog*...
@@ragnar3434Then there’s me.
“Yes, I’m playing an Athreos deck. Yes, it absolutely *is* a combo-centric Shadowborn Apostle Athreos deck; I *am* in fact that kind of monster.”
@@ragnar3434 nope. never is.
“It usually doesn’t assemble its pieces that fast!” they say, as they go infinite and win while no one has the needed removal spell on like turn 2 or 3.
Even worse is he can tap winter orb at the endstep so he gets to untap just fine while everyone else at the table gets to suffer
Fun for me, but not for thee.
That interaction doesn't really matter when you have infinite mana on turn 2
The worst part about Winter's Orb is that Urza can tap it for mana. Then since orb is tapped all of Urza's lands untap normally.
Edit: Mandatory 1k likes edit, thank you random internet strangers!
Lmao that's fucking filthy, I love it
Then add Unwinding Clock and you essentially get free reign over the game.
Yeah, that's going at the top of the list of things I'm never telling our resident Urza player.
Or play Howling Mine and tap it for everyone else.
I'm gonna throw up
Literally, LITERALLY, if Urza didn't make Artifacts taps for mana, I might've become a blue player instead of Golgari. But instead, my first commander experience was against him and I've never been the same.
That sounds very Golgari. Typically you don't come back to life after becoming a zombie.
Okay but in my Urza deck, it’s all 0 drop artifacts and Sea Monsters, so when I activate his ability, Urza goes fishing and either pulls up a big fish (Tromokratis) or an old boot (Herbal Poultice).
The deck is called Urza’s Retirement and beatdowns with sea monsters is the only win condition.
Mah boi Tromo! He's my mono-blue commander 😂
don't you also fish up a land quite often
@@CormagTheCorman Yeah man!
Sea monsters are awesome. I used to have an Arixmethes deck back in the day. Tromokratis was featured there as well.
@@athath2010 I do fish up a land about a third of the time, yeah. Which sucks, but that’s fishing, ya never know what you’re gonna get.
wait, this deck is actually sick. Loving the flavor.
His own wife was never happy with him so I'm gonna say he probably didn't make those toys available and between that and the selfishness in lore I'm going to say getting it is not in the cards.
Love the work as always and I will continue my quest to have you roast Grand Warlord Radha.
Counter point is they did Fuck for 3 days straight in canon
He COULD get it - but he's too locked into the Sigma Grindset
There's even plausible speculation that Harbin isn't actually his son, and his recent card looking more like Mishra than Urza isn't helping things.
The reason why he was unhappy, is because he only had enough toys for himself.
She (a stunningly beautiful princess) literally went into his workshop and was like “Urza, please stop building mecha-dragons and have sex with me.” And he basically just told her “not now, I’m busy building robots.”
I was browsing EDHRec and stumbled upon this card and its high salt score. I was in a Discord call with my friend at the time and said, "Wait, this doesn't look too bad. Why does everyone hate it?"
"Winter Orb."
"Ah."
Even without stacks pieces, it's still absolutely broken.
The card just does it all: huge mana production, gives you a board state and is it's own mana dump for the mana you generated giving you card advantage in the process.
Just inane levels of power creep compared to older cards.
Imho a well designed commander (or card in general) should never have both setup and pay off on the same card. Never! That's just lame design.
A deck with a 4 mana commander shouldn't have infinite mana on turn 2/3
SHOW US YOUR DOG. I HEARD THAT POOCH. SHOW US THE PUP.
Lorewise, almost everything bad that happened in the history of Magic was Urza's fault.
Thats not even close to true. If you want you can pin the phyrexians existing on him, since he (and his brother) freed them by accident. (Even then thats like, 1/3 of the bad things that happened)
But then you have to blame everythin the Eldrazi did on Nissa for freeing them
“Everything bad that happened in magic” can be summed up in three parts. The Phyrexians, the Eldrazi, and Nicol Bolas. The Phyrexians were absolutely 100% his fault there is no doubt there. Nicol bolas was the product of a sibling rivalry gone wrong (I see the resemblance but it’s not THAT rivalry) and it was the elder dragon war that really caused it, which Urza had no part in. Lastly, the eldrazi were caused by their own volition and hunger to feed. Bolas poked the bear, nissa lit gasoline, and ugin messed with things he could not comprehend, but they caused their own awakening. Therefore, Urza is only a third at fault for everything wrong with magic.
@@DM-Ozand I do blame nissa for that
Mishra did nothing wrong
Just the experiments in the Tolarian Academy make him a monster. I do respect Maldhound for not going for the obvious and lore accurate accusation of "warcriminal". It must be hard writing a skit about Urza and not go for the low hanging fruit.
I built him as Karnstruct tribal and completed refuse to use his 5 mana ability. I call the deck “Mono-blue Elfball.”
Lmao, that's actually kinda cool! Definitely logging the concept for future reference.
So trying to keep your friends deck. Got it 😂😂😂
@@jennaherman3859 ?
Very accurate deck title lol
Urza commits war crimes on the daily and I still be running all his gear
We got his saga, his incubator, his lands, his battlethopter, His child?? the list continues and so does my love for the mad lad of magic
Only the real chads play his sunglasses
@@Natboof I play Urza's Miter.
It's not good, its just there to send a message.
And that message is that I have an awesome hat.^^
I made an Urza deck recently, played one game and decided to tear it up. I had a blast, but no one else was having fun and I felt terrible after.
You appear to be far too kind to play blue
I made a blue white wheel deck. Lemme tell you nothing gives me more joy in the world than making everyone wheel theyre graveyard and hand back and have to take one and mil 2 for every card I draw. Then proceed to play my next wheel free lmao
@@noelorenzetti9324 mid game, I'm evil. It's after the game that I have regret. Most of my decks run blue, I love counterspells so much.
share your deck please?@@matthewliek7935
I built an Urza deck and its such a fun deck to play. Of course its a feelbad for the opponents but i think its fine to get staxed out of the game every onec in a while so im not even thinking about tearing it apart.
This man is the only reason I can conceptualize why people hate Blue more than Green, like if this is the only blue player you know yeah screw those guys
Why would anyone hate green?
Black is the thing everyone should hate. At least from my experience playing standard. By far most insufferable colour.
he can indeed get it, and once canonically got it for three days straight
Dead Ass? From fucking who?? Xantcha?? Oh maybe Kayla, I forgot he was indeed Married.
Its blue
Its artifacts
Its free mana
AKTAP
Always kill the artifact player
(Also atarka world render)
The machines cannot be trusted
Artifact players be like:
Na he don't bite
The blightsteel they about to play for free and copy 5 times: 😬
Me: Tries to play a funny 4/4 flyer boi.
Urza: Laughs in static orb and mana drain.
I really want an altered art of Urza to be Dr. Eggman because that makes so much sense to me. I would build that deck and be evil every second of the day if I got my hands on that.
Hey, eggman is not THAT evil. Instead of urza, check out davros, dalek creator.
Remember the rule of blue. The only way you are having fun is if you are the only one playing.
sorry you seemed to have mispelled auzorious
@@divinityquartz3428 hey give some credit to esper too
@@nicolaistuhlmuller8718 you mean azourious+murder? Fair I suppose. Still not as bad as bant, azourious+mana ramp.
@@divinityquartz3428 laughs in colorless stax.
@@wesleywyndam-pryce5305 laughs with you and my karn deck.
I would pay good money for this short, but with Urza, Lord Protector, or Mishra, Claimed by Gix, and lumping in their Meld ridiculousness, but this Urza is still great, and I agree with everything you said. 😊 Honestly, his only restraint is how expensive the physical card is to obtain.
everyone loves to hear doggo's floppy ears slapping their own head. Show Pupper.
Mald, he started a war over a rock his brother had even though he already had one. He wouldn’t loan you white t-shirt let alone an “special activities” robot.
Polymorph Urza, even tho he's not the cEDH babo I wanted him to be, is still my absolute go to whenever I wanna be petty ❤
Oh I have a BUNCH of decks where this guy would be FANTASTIC! Like, for example, my flicker deck makes hundreds of gnomes anyway, might as well tap them for mana!
My strategy as a mono green player against mono blue is to play so many threats in one turn that they can't possibly swat all of them down. Oh, that and including so many ludicrously powerful things in the deck that the things im going to win with are ignored
“Have fun countering my craterhoof when I have 4 more lol”
I believe the dialogue in V for Vendetta fits here: "No, what you have are bullets and the hope that when your guns are empty I'm no longer standing, because if I am, you'll all be dead before you've reloaded."
@@janmelantu7490 for me specifically it tends to be primordial hydras lol
All I have to say is Sphinx's Tutelage, Psychic Spiral, and Traumatize are things that exist. I have a friend that plays mono Green into my typical mono Blue decks. If I'm feeling particularly mean, I run three Sphinx's Tutelage, two Psychic Spirals, and two Traumatize cards. I have drawn at least one of all three of them in one starting hand before and made that man cry. To be absolutely fair, that was also one of my Jace decks. Peace was never an option.
I’m just gonna say the urza equipment deck goes crazy
It’s pretty awesome, but Voltron in commander is usually underpowered unless you have something like kediss to spread the damage. Tapping equipped equipment for mana will never not be hilarious though
Completely right!
Awesome video, thanks!
Day 2 of asking for a review of Zhulodok, Void Gorger, Gandalf, Westward Voyager and Magus Lucea Kane.
I have a very very mean deack around him that i only bring out when someone gets to cocky at the table 😂
God, this has become one of my favorite Commanders, right next to K'rrik, bc now I always have mana for combos AND counter spells, just so nice
K'rrik an absolute banger. Haven't yet made an Urza deck yet but soon...
My roommate has an Urza deck.
We don't let him play it with us, because it's just solitaire. And if he does play it, my goal is not to win, but to ensure he loses.
The pili pala grand architect combo with urza in the LCI merfolk deck is funny asf
Blue is just agony to fight, and you said it perfectly. "You don't get to do cool shit until the blue player has tapped ALL their mana"
Another day of asking for Titania, Protector of Argoth. Turning our fast swaths of land into the march of the ents to beat your face off.
"Machines for extracurricular activities" is WILD 😂😂😂
We once again ask for glorious buddy, Urtet!
I’ve managed never to include this guy in an artifact deck, and I’m proud of that.
You want a mono-blue commander everyone is cool with? It’s time to do Kami of the Crescent Moon!
Or blue Braids. They get value from it before you do.
*mtgremy song playing
The entire summary of magic the gathering in 1 sentence. Either Urza, Bolas, or the Eldrazi are up to no good, and sometimes multiple.
Wonderful video! Certainly one of your better ones!
It's me, that tatyova/Zada guy. I went on hiatus, and you did tatyova (ThankYouSoMuch).
I would like to humbly request, once again, Zada, hedron grinder (indomitable creativity for half your deck turn 5? Yes please!).
I would also like to request drana and linvala. Slapping them down next to a life and limb will finally make the green players play fair! ☺️
Can he get it? Urza is the GILF/DILF of DOMinaria!
Pupper?
Can we see pupper?
oh so that's what Urza's science fair project does
I remember the first time I sat down across from an Urza player, the Assistant Manager of my LGS told us he was gonna teach us a lesson. Turn 4 his Urza comes out, turn 5 I Mind Control it. Didn't have mana for the counter in hand, no bounce spells in his deck and no one was using their board wipes to give him back Shit Lord here. He sat the rest of the game out doing nothing.
fisto: Please assume possition. Player: I CANT FEEL MY LEGS thanks urza you were always cool in my book.
“Urza, chief of nobody liking him” is actually very lore accurate. He really did screw everybody over.
You know Urza is Magic's Pygmalion.
Just tap the winterorb for mana on the previous players endstep. That way you. And only you. Can untap all your land
This card screams, "I don't play mono U to have fun, I play mono U so you DON'T"
You’ve done Urza, now you need to cover the true hero of MtG. Freyalise, Llanowar’s Fury spent her life cleaning up Urza’s messes after all.
If you’re gonna do Urza you may as well do his spiritual successor in Gruul: Meria, Scholar of Antiquity.
So I just learned who Cormela, Glamour Thief is. She is Grixis wet dream. Just run a basic sacrifice recursion deck and she's threatening infinite mana and/or sacrifices; LITERALLY AT ANY MOMENT. She has flash, and there are instants that will put her back into play when she dies. It's actually disgusting how fast the deck builds itself
I would really like to see your take on Reality Chip. Equipment as a commander is *wild*.
As a reality chip player, "Wild" wouldn't be my first thought. Considering the best card in the deck, the Sensei's Divining Top, it can be very easy to fall into the dark path of the thoracle (I only did it cause I opened a thoracle previously some time ago).
"I tap two robots and cast countersp..."
"I. CAST. FIST!!" òÓ
Urza player phases out.
Ive considered saskia the undying solely to play every color except blue
I remember back on the night of the prerelease for this set, i hadnt seen any spoilers, i pulled this guy lmao. friends were like ayyyyy
There is exactly 1 cool mono blue commander, and that is Octavia aka Best Girl Spocktopus
also day9 for roast of Duke Ulder Rabengard
As an Urza player I can confirm this is all true. But I at least leave out the orb. Lol
Bad enough he gives your spells improvise, but then he turns any blue spell you cast into an artifact, even the instants.
Urza, Lord High Friendless
Do my commander, God-Eternal Kefnet!
Unwinding clock and Manifold key sound real mean with that Winter Orb.
If I start to hate myself just a little more I might have to make this deck just to piss people off.
I once played an Urza player who played Winter Orb, and then proceeded to use Sea Gate Restoration while I had both Smothering Tithe and Anointed Procession on field, and he was all tapped out xD Easiest W of my life
My friend built an urza stax deck that we never let see the light of day (and for good reason) so out of pure spite I built an urza deck of my own and did Voltron equipment. Eventually I realized how awful Voltron is in commander so I switched it to artifact construct beaters, but I never added a single stax piece and I will always stand by that, no matter how powerful it may be. Heck I’ll let people draw off of howling mine if I’m nice enough
It’s the Revolving door of Pokémon
Should do Scion of the Ur-Dragon next !! Love your content ❤❤❤
Thank you!
I second this
uril, the miststalker.
i feel it would be funny af
This is why I like Ojer pakpatiq (I think that's how it's spelled) not a super scary commander , I built it for goofy interaction and still manages to pop off in weird ways
Sure the last ability is random until you have infinite mana and cast your whole deck.
I am once again fighting for my group hug girl Zedhruu the Greathearted
There's no mercy in an Arby's parking lot
With my Urza's deck focus being on stopping others from playing Magic on a foundational level, it took no time earning the name Urza's Salt Mine.
Nah be me, and play the new Esper Urza precon that all about Artifacts creatures.
Youll buy me arbys? God that's a worse threat than being countered you deal with it.
Oh and the best part is, it avoids any kind of summoning sickness because the ability is a passive on Urza and not "artifacts you control gain T: Add U" because we need it to be just that much more nonsensical.
I run Sakashima as a solo commander for mono blue... "activities"
The deck is almost all clones, stuff that makes copies, stuff that turns other stuff into something else, stuff that steals stuff, and my favorite, the other sakashima...
The moment the name Urza was anywhere on that card we weren't gonna be cool with it
I don't know if that jingling sound is a dog collar or all of Urza's Constructs hitting the battlefield.
this is the guy i built when everyone at my pod bullied me into almost not playing again. they no longer bully me.
I specifically don't run Winter Orb in my Urza deck. There's a line, and that one crosses it, doubles back, and crosses it a second time.
Recently played a game with my Urza commander deck and dropped mycosynth lattice making all my permanents artifacts which in turn took my 5/5 constructs to 28/28 constructs
Urza gets all the mono-blue commander hate, which is great because it sometimes lets God-Eternal Kefnet fly under the radar. At least, until somebody at the table has faced a Kefnet extra turns deck before and can warn everybody else that your win condition is just making sure that nobody else can get a turn via one of several endless loops (eg. Isochron Scepter + Mystical Tutor + Nexus of Fate), and then poking people to death with a bird god.
thats an incredibly boring deck
@@wesleywyndam-pryce5305 No, it's actually pretty interactive, as most of the deck is a combination of control and theft (eg. Kefnet + Bribery is stupid), with Shark Typhoon + Metallurgic Summonings for backup bodies.
The loop isn't necessary to win but, when I set up an infinite loop, I demonstrate it and ask if people have a solution in hand and would like me to play it through or whether they want to end the game.
The grossest combo in that deck is actually by imprinting Brainstorm on the Isochron, and then looping Expropriate (play the copy, draw 3 and put the real copy back on top; repeat until I own everything on the board and have a bunch of extra turns). I only got that once, but it was enough.
Cant wait to be *that guy* at the table. I picked up Urza for 4 bucks. Thanks commander masters.
I was dead when he mentioned skynet lmao
Those extracurricular activities was hilarious. Funny man please stop taking all the easy shots. I need to see you do a video on Kelsien the Plague. Please and thank you
I pulled an Urza at the MH pre-release and put him in my Saheeli artifacts deck.
I dont think I will ever build a deck around him, its probably a great time for me but not for the rest of the table 😅.
HOUND NO DONT HIT THAT, HES A EUGENICIST
Love to see your big blue brain take on Memnarch
Blue decks are the definition of "why would I have friends when I could have victory?"
Day 1 of requesting Chulane, Tutor of Tales. Who needs tutors when you can tutor your entire deck and deoending on the combo get infinite mana
Whats worse then blue having mana, prism having mana. Crimes, all of them.
So. I got this blue Urza guy, power artifact on a basalt monolith, a Mondrak and anointed procession, mirrorworks and esper Urza in play. I play a panharmonicon. Use mirror to get 4 copy tokens. I then sculpting steel the panharmicon, triggering the mirrorworks into 5 panharmonicons that activate cumulatively making 125? Panharmonicon copies. I then Play helm of the host, onto mondrak, and declare end step, mondrak gets copied triggering a cumulative set of doubling that has a few thousand iterations. Then, Esper Urza triggers, into millions of Mondrak Doublers, popping off thousands of times each, making an army of googleplex X/X Constructs who have menace because of Esper Urza. It’s war crimes the likes of which have only been seen in Stellaris. Blue Urza dug me to the helm. And the pan harmonic on.
Karn, the Great Creator & Mychosynth Lattice, for that lil bit EXTRA 🧂🧂
You are the only other person I've ever heard use the term "extra curricular activities" in that way aside from myself. I thought it was just me that said it.
Also can we get some love for my boy Toski!
I'm hoping to see soms Oloro, Ageless Ascetic roast
I need my OG eminence commander Oloro to get roasted
Winter Orb and other shenanigans aside, he's ridiculous simply because you can now tap your Treasures for mana without sacrificing them. That's what balances Treasures being so easy to get. Oh whoops Academy Man says when you make a Treasure, Clue, or Food you actually make three mana rocks? Ragequit central.
I've been itching to make a mono blue equipment voltron deck where you suit up the constructs and don't even get to win through commander damage.
Yes I'm a masochist
I'm going to do what's called a "pro gamer move"
*plays static orb*
Make everything a artifact with encroaching mycosynth and then unwinding clock. You are never out of mana with erza and if anyone even trys to remove him he has 10 counter spells in his hand.
For me urza just basically say F it your artifact creatures don't have to worry about haste enablers to tap for mana. It doesn't even care about stony silence since it's urza who does it
I am once again asking for Okaun and Zndrsplt and their coin flip shenanigans.